From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21230 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21206 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00895; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Saletta cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DHCP Support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Steve Saletta wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my machine over FTP through our Ethernet. > Unfortunately, we have dynamic IP addresses and use DHCP. The instalation > program is not taking this very well, and is refusing to resolve any > hostnames. > > Does FreeBSD have DHCP client support? The installer doesn't, but simply boot into Windoze, get a lease, then use that IP address to install FreeBSD. Once it's up you can install a client. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message